| P number: | P002811 |
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| Old photograph number: | D02109 |
| Caption: | Oblique aerial view of Beinn Tarsuinn and Mullach Coire Mhic Fhearchair, Ross and Cromarty. |
| Description: | This is a common sequence, basement high grade metamorphic Lewisian gniesses with a strongly undulating ancient land surface onto which undeformed fluvial sandstones have been deposited. After an interval of c. 200 Ma. there was a period of crustal warping in which the Precambrian rocks of what is now part of the Caledonian Foreland were arched into large folds. Considerable erosion followed with much of the Torridonian being eroded away leaving a remarkably flat plain. The Cambrian sediments were deposited on this surface as it progressively and gently subsided. The foreground is Lewisian, overlain by strongly bedded Torridonian in middle ground, which itself is overlain by white Cambrian quartzite on the background peaks. |
| Date taken: | Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 GMT 1976 |
| Photographer: | Christie, A. |
| Copyright statement: | NERC |
| Acknowledgment: | This image was digitized with grant-in-aid from SCRAN the Scottish Cultural Resources Access Network |
| X longitude/easting: | 204450 |
| Y latitude/northing: | 873150 |
| Coordinate reference system, ESPG code: | 27700 (OSGB 1936 / British National Grid) |
| Orientation: | Portrait |
| Size: | 323.70 KB; 998 x 1000 pixels; 84 x 85 mm (print at 300 DPI); 264 x 265 mm (screen at 96 DPI); |
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| Categories: | Unsorted Images |
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